Double-Tap With Two Fingers on Braille Display

By Kelsey, 1 October, 2015

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Braille on Apple Products

Hi,
Does anyone know how to perform the Double-Tap With Two Fingers gesture on a Braille keyboard? So, this would pause and play music, restart video playback etc. Thanks :-)

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By Brian Tew on Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 14:40

Well I just move around until I find a pause/play button and click that.
Or you could go to the control center and use those controls.

By Paul Martin on Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 14:40

The jester you seek can be done with dots one, five, six, and space. This is more often called a magic tap, as developers can employ this for actions such as view conversation in Twitterrific, or view map in Q Dark Room.

By Kelsey on Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 14:40

In reply to by Paul Martin

This isn't working for me... space with dots 1 5 and 6 or space with the wh sign isn't working...

By Paul Martin on Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 14:40

It is worth noting that this was just introduced and Ios nine. If you're still running iOS 8 .4, that could be one reason why it won't work. That being said, any other reason I can't think of. It may be worth contacting Apple accessibility if nothing you do resolves the issue.

By Kelsey on Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 14:40

I'm running iOS 9.0.2 on my iPhone 5C, and attempting the Braille equivalent of the magic tap on my BrailleNote Apex. It's just not working; I've also tried proceeding the command with the pass-through command (enter + dots 4, 5, 6) but that was also unsuccessful

By Travis Roth on Saturday, October 24, 2015 - 14:40

I'd guess that the notetaker is interfering somehow. Using iOS 9 and a Focus 14 Blue, dots 156-space works. Before iOS 9 this was display specific. E.g., the Focus 14's right most concave button on the front would toggle this. Whereas on a Refreshabraille I never found an equivalent. Until iOS 9.